Carpet-fastener



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W. R. JOHNS.

- CARPET ,FASTENBR No. 284,637. Patented sept. 11,1883.,

NrrnD STATES 'PATENT Ottica.

VILLR. JOI-INS, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS.

CARPET-FASTENER.

srncrricAfr/ION forming part of Lettere Patent 110,284,637, dated september 11, 1883.

Application filed J' une 13, 1883. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILL R. JOHNS, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Rockford, in the county of Winnebago and State of Illinois, have invented anew and useful Carpet-Fastening, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to fixing the edges of carpets when placed upon the iioor in apartments and its object is to provide a fastening by means of which a carpet may be readily placed in position, removed and replaced, or other carpets substituted, when required, without change of fastening; and it consists in a saw-toothed blade or blades hinge-jointed to a base-molding fixed to the base-board of an apartment, in such a manner that the teeth of the hinged blades shall engage the carpet when passed under the blades.

In the accompanying drawings I` have illustrated my improvement, Vand have shown its application, and in which;-

Figure l is an isometrical under edge view of my improved fastening. Fig. 2 is an isometrical view, showing its application. Fig. 3 is an isometrical view, showing the method of putting the carpet in place. Fig. 4 is an K isometrical view, showing how` the carpet is removed from the fastening. Fig. 5 is an isometrical representation of the stretcher.

In the figures, A represents a portion of a molding of a character suitable for a basemolding for apartments requiring a carpeted iioor; but instead of the form represented any 3 5 of the known forms may be employed. The

, back lower angle or corner of this molding is rabbeted, as at a, to receive the toothed holding-plates.

At b are represented metallic plates having one edge thereof produced in saw-tooth form, and arey provided at proper intervals with holes 7a to receive apin or nail. These plates are placed in the rabbeted angle of the molding, having their non-toothed edge placed in the inner angle thereof, and are fixed therein to oscillate onra hinged connection. by means of a pin or nail, d, driven through the molding across the inner angle of the rabbet and through the hole h in the saw-toothed plates. 5o At e is represented a segment or arch-formed spring, produced in this instance from springwire, having its ends driven or otherwise iixed in the rabbeted portion of the molding in such position that its spring action will tend to hold the toothed plate in a vertical position against the vertical side of the rabbet a, formed .1n the molding.

At Bis represented a carpet-stretcher, consisting of a handle, c, and a transverse head, K, produced from plate material, and having 6o its front edge, a, notched in saw-toothed form to engage the carpet.

At C is represented a portion of a floor of an apartment, and at D is represented a portion of a base-board, fixed to the vertical wall 6 5 of the apartment and connecting with the floor. In use my improved holder is fixed to the vertical base-board of an apartment in such position thereon that the teeth of the plates will engage the floor preferably before they 7o reach a vertical position, being inclined toward the angle ofthe apartment produced by the junction of the base-board with the floor.

At E is represented a portion of a carpet placed upon the floor and iixed in the holder.

In placing the carpet in my improved holder it is spread upon the floor, having its edges placed to enter the holderb The stretcher 1s then placed upon the carpet, near its edge, in such a manner that its teeth shall en- 8o gage or catch into the carpet, and by means of which the carpet is forced outward toward the base-board under the holder, causing the toothed plate to rise outward over or above the carpet. Then the' withdrawal of the 8 5 stretcher will permit the toothed plate to descend by the .action of the spring 'and engage the carpet over the teeth of the stretcher, as shown in Fig. 3, and hold it to the floor iirmly. To disengage the carpet and removeit from 9o the holder, the stretcher is forced between the carpet and the holderin such a manner as to disengage the toothed plates from the carpet, as shown in Fig. 4, when the carpet can be withdrawn from under the stretcher.

I claim as my inventionl l. The combination,with the 'rabbeted molding, of an oscillating toothed plate-holder, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with the toothed hold- 100 ing-plates having a hinged connection with tion theljewith to engage and hold the carpet the base-piece, of a spring operating to hold tothe floor, substantially in 4the manner set 1o the toothed plate in a vertical position, subforth. v stantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination, with the base-board I and with the floor, of a holdel` consisting of a w Vitnesses: rabbeted molding to engage the hase-board, JACOB BEHEL,` and toothed holders having@ hinged oonnee- A. O. BEHEL.

WILL n.. JOHNS. 

